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Route Description
M60/M602/A663/A627(M) Manchester Ring Road
Route description
The M60 is the orbital motorway through Greater Manchester encircling the urban conurbation of Manchester. It connects the two sections of the M62 Trans-Pennine motorway and part of the route has both as east-west Trans-Pennine role and an orbital role. There are also junctions with the M66 to Bury, the M61 to Preston, the M602 to Salford, the M56 to Manchester Airport and westbound to Cheshire and North Wales - and the M67 towards Sheffield. The M60 allows access to towns and cities such as Oldham, Bury, Salford and Stockport to each other, Manchester City Centre and to the wider motorway network. The motorway has a total length of 56 km and has 27 junctions with an average spacing of 2.1 km with many being much closer. Although it has a similar number of junctions to the M25 orbital route around London, the length of the M60 is much shorter and the junction spacing much less (The M25 is 190 km long with 33 junctions with an average spacing of 5.75 km.)
The standard of the motorway varies throughout its length with 2 lane, 3 lane and 4 lane sections with or without hard shoulders and/or narrow lanes. Of the 27 junctions along the M60 many have restricted movements, especially in the Stockport area.
The M60 was constructed in seven basic sections and took 40 years to construct:
- Stretford to Eccles By-pass (Jct. 7 to Jct. 12 - formerly M63 Section): This section of the ring road serves the large Trafford Park Industrial and Retail Area, and includes the Barton Bridge.
- Eccles to Middleton Link (Jct. 12 to Jct. 18 - formerly part of the M62 Lancashire to Yorkshire Motorway): This section of the route crosses through urban areas to the west and north of the Manchester conurbation characterized by residential areas and old industrial workings.
- Sale Eastern and Northenden By-pass (Jct. 2 to Jct. 7 - formerly M63 Section).
- Middleton Link (Jct. 18 to Jct. 19 - formerly M66 Section): Covers an industrial area of east Lancashire, north of Manchester. The link extends in a south-easterly direction to a junction with the A576.
- Portwood to Denton By-pass (Jct. 24 to Jct. 27 - formerly M66 Section).
- Stockport East-West By-pass (Jct. 27 to Jct. 2 - formerly M63 Section). Junction 25 to Junction 1 was recently widened to 3 lanes each way as part of the MORRIS works that resulted in the loss of hard shoulder.
- M66 Manchester Outer Ring Road, Denton to Middleton Section (Jct. 19 to Jct. 24): This was the final section of the M60 to be constructed. This 10-mile section of motorway extends from the M67/A57 interchange at Denton to the A576 junction at Middleton. The route passes through a wide variety of landscapes, much of it urban in character.
For a visual location of the RMS please refer to the map
